2783579585 | Mandate | An official order or commission to do something | 0 | |
2783581815 | Constitution | The Constitution is the supreme law of the land in the United States. Learn more about our founding document. The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. | 1 | |
2783583859 | Feudalism | the federal principle or system of government. | 2 | |
2783585106 | Centralized | concentrate (control of an activity or organization) under a single authority. | 3 | |
2783586748 | Decentralized | transfer (authority) from central to local government. | 4 | |
2783588217 | Tyranny | the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler. a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler. oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler. a cruel or harsh act or proceeding; an arbitrary, oppressive, or tyrannical action. | 5 | |
2792541489 | Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. | 6 | |
2792541971 | Periphery | the outer limits or edge of an area or object. | 7 | |
2792544376 | City-state | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 8 | |
2792545363 | Revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. | 9 | |
2792546390 | Post | Behind; after | 10 | |
2792546820 | Pre | Before; prior | 11 | |
2792547081 | Civilization | the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced. | 12 | |
2792548725 | Plethora | An excessive amount | 13 | |
2792550877 | Irrigation | the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture | 14 | |
2792551997 | Ethnocentrism | evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. | 15 | |
2792554977 | Xenophobia | intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries | 16 | |
2792555950 | Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. | 17 | |
2792556082 | Foraging | of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions. | 18 | |
2792558538 | Matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 19 | |
2792562047 | Patriarchal | of, relating to, or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line. | 20 | |
2792562858 | Cultural diffusion | the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point . | 21 | |
2792563566 | Metallurgy | the branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification | 22 | |
2792565032 | Pictograph | a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC. | 23 | |
2792565203 | Tribute | payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence | 24 | |
2792567185 | Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. | 25 | |
2792567723 | Aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices. | 26 | |
2792567901 | Monarchy | A monarchy is a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in one or several individual(s) reigning until death or abdication. | 27 | |
2792568709 | Democracy | A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives. | 28 | |
2792570718 | Republicanism | the guiding political philosophy of the United States. | 29 | |
2792571048 | Theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god | 30 | |
2792571495 | Migration | movement from one part of something to another. | 31 | |
2792572587 | Immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country | 32 | |
2792573076 | Diaspora | Jews living outside Israel. the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel. the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. | 33 | |
2792583200 | Heresies | belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine. | 34 | |
2792584415 | Peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference | 35 | |
2792586510 | Primogeniture | the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son. | 36 | |
2792587152 | Calligraphy | the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush. | 37 | |
2792587567 | Fief | the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty | 38 | |
2792590272 | Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 39 | |
2792591494 | Scholar | a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities; a distinguished academic. | 40 | |
2792592763 | Counter | a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. | 41 | |
2793057072 | Charter | a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined. | 42 | |
2793057073 | Ideology | a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. | 43 | |
2793059997 | Interactions | reciprocal action or influence. "ongoing interaction between the two languages" | 44 | |
2793062913 | Demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations. | 45 | |
2793067067 | Absolutism | the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters. | 46 | |
2793067961 | Secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. | 47 | |
2793070740 | Textile | a type of cloth or woven fabric. | 48 | |
2793071807 | Stratification | Stratification is a system or formation of layers, classes, or categories. Stratification is used to describe a particular way of arranging seeds while planting, as well as the geological layers of rocks. | 49 | |
2793075092 | Yeoman | a servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page. | 50 | |
2793076584 | Predestination | (as a doctrine in Christian theology) the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin. | 51 | |
2793077154 | Covenant | agree, especially by lease, deed, or other legal contract. | 52 | |
2793079361 | Natural/ inalienable rights | The unalienable rights that are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence could just as well have been inalienable, which means the same thing. Inalienable or unalienable refers to that which cannot be given away or taken away. | 53 | |
2793080722 | Continent | any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America). | 54 | |
2793083708 | Region | an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries. | 55 | |
2793084328 | State | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 56 | |
2793085575 | Privateer | 1. an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping. | 57 | |
2793086842 | Popular sovereignty | Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives | 58 | |
2793087265 | Mobocracy | rule or domination by the masses. | 59 |
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